EK res x2 will not fully fill

elmuzzy66.

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Scratching my head at the moment. I filling up my loop but the res will not fully fill. Its at a 1/4 level (were the inner plastic tube ends) and if i try to add more liquid it will just stay in the fill line. I have the top port as a fill port and the intake is on the side port and out take on the bottom port. loop order res-pump-rad-rad-cpu-gpu-res.

Any ideas? I think it could be air trapped in the loop but enough as not to let you fill up?

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If i try to add more liquid the fill line over flows. Its being runnig for a few hours.
 
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For water to get in the loop through the fill line air must be able to get out through the fill line at the same time. Can't tell from the pick but your description suggests you have one of the internal tubes on the fill port line with the end of it submerged under water as far as you have been able to fill. This will prevent you filling any more as air cannot get out whilst you try to put more water in. You do not really need the internal tube on the port which is used for filling, infact the way you have your intakes and outakes you don't need to use any of the internal tubes and they should really have been removed. You might be able to get away with undoing to second top port if it has a blanking plug on it. If it has a shorter tube or preferably no tube at all you will be able to get more water in. If not you will have to strip down.
 
Where can the air go lol.. You are filling it via the only place the air can be let out from.

The current fill line should be your intake, the outlet stays the same and the current intake changes to your fill line.
 
That would only work if you laid the case on its side whilst filling so the air can get out through the fill line as it always must do. This would make it tricky to keep the pump inlet submerged while flicking power on/off. The OP may be able to tilt the case as is and fill that way, as long as the inlet to the pump is always submerged AND the bottom of the tube in the fill port is not submerged. If you are going to use one of the top ports as the loop inlet then it is still preferable to use the second top port as a fill line, but without the internal tube.
 
Right, done a bit more research on this particular res, the X2. It appears to have only one port on the "top", with a long internal tube coming down. So that rules out removing the second top port as that only appears on the advanced version of this res. If you want to avoid stripping down to get rid of that internal tube one thing you could do is unscrew the top of the res whilst you are filling, that will allow air out perfectly. You will probably have to do something with the fill line itself allow you to twist it as you unscrew the top, i.e. disconnect it from the fill port in your case if you have one, but it will work.
 
Bubo said:
If you want to avoid stripping down to get rid of that internal tube one thing you could do is unscrew the top of the res whilst you are filling, that will allow air out perfectly. You will probably have to do something with the fill line itself allow you to twist it as you unscrew the top, i.e. disconnect it from the fill port in your case if you have one, but it will work.
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If he takes off his fill line, he should then be able to unscrew the top of the res and remove the plastic pipe from the top. Put it all back together and it should work without any problems.
 
So because the OP is using a inline wich looks like a straw lol he cant get air out? Why diddnt he just open the cap from the res and filled it that way?
 
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